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St. Nicholas. Index to St. Nicholas a complete comprehensive index and dictionary catalogue to the first 27 volumes of St. Nicholas ; containing 20,000 references arranged analytically, alphabetically and clas:

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sified; comp. by Harriet Goss and Gertrude A. Baker. Cleveland, O., published with the permission of The Century Co. by Cumulative Index Co., [1901.] c. 234 p. O. cl.,

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Mrs Mary Mates

Dodge,' the editor of St.

foundation in its home at summer her 1871 at the age Onteora Park, Tannersville, N. ork City in of seventy- four. Born in New Professor James J. 1831, the daughter of Nicholas Magazine died

August

since

21, at

Y

scientific

Mapes, the well-known promoter of Dodge farming in the United States, Mrs. atmosphere. spent all her life in a literary drawing She was very talented for music, displayed a and modelling, and also early stones. keen taste for writing children s William While quite young she married after Dodo-e a lawyer, but he died suddenly boys to bring a short time and left her two

Carnegie Corporation ifunb for

instruction in 3Ufcrarian£tf)iP '

up

In her

first

executive position she was

Hearth and Home and came in touch with Harriet Beecher Stowe writers of "Ik Marvel" and other celebrated magazine. She their day who wrote for that was wrote for the periodical and her ability to edit soon recognized, and she was called

associate

editor

of

_

UnSt Nicholas with great public approval. be.ame der her management St. Nicholas great educain many lands and a famous

tional feature in the lives of the

young people

was iuof the last generation. Mrs. Dodge Hans thor of "The Irvington Stones, of its Brinker," the most successful juvenile into Dutch, day, which has been translated

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Ton,

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DonFrench, German, Russian and Italian; and How ald and Dorothv," "A Few Friends They Amused themselves good and Others," and she did almost equally
 * " and "Theophilus



on "Rhymes and Jingles, Mrs. and "Baby World." Dodge also wrote for grown people and has One contributed to all our best magazines. contribof her immensely popular sketches Malony uted to Scribner's in 1870 was "Mrs. on the Chinese Question," which was used

editor's

"Baby.

work

Days"

Atlantic to for recitation for years from the strictly to the Pacific. Mrs. Dodge attended work until within a few months. Her name was a household word among the children for

many, many years.